Boracay casino plans revived
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Boracay casino plans revived
MANILA, Philippines — It seems like the deferred casino plans on the world-famous island Boracay will push through after all.
Citing lack of funds, President Rodrigo Duterte recently took back his words against casino plans and said he is now in favor of those.
(Now, you’ll say, ‘This Duterte, you said you don’t want gambling, and now you encourage the opening of a gambling house in Boracay for tourists?’)
(Please forgive me for the contradiction. Now we don’t have money. Wherever we may get money, I’ll take it. If that’s from gambling, so be it. If I was wrong there, yes, I am wrong. If I didn’t stand by my word, yes that’s right, but I need money to run the government because I have a lot to finance.)
In April 2018, Duterte said he would prohibit casinos on Boracay island, which was closed to tourists for six months for rehabilitation.
"There are no plans for a casino. That’s enough, because it's too much. There's a casino here, casino there," Duterte said then.
Opposition vs revived Boracay casino plans
The president's recent pronouncement earned the ire of Boracaynons.
Business community leader or business owner Nenette Aguirre-Graf opposed the project, saying they have worked their way to promote Boracay as a family destination.
“It’s been like that for years. And here comes a new pronouncement by the president. We all know what goes with a casino island. It goes with drugs, prostitution, criminality, money laundering and many other things that are negative,” she told ANC.
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Hey that's Italian Spaghetti Western hero Dirty Duante - his face looks remarkably like it was painted on by a bloke that learned his trade doing circa 1960's slot machines.
Re: Boracay casino plans revived
Winnie say no.
This finish now.
This finish now.
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Not unlike another place I can think of, they fcuked up Boracay with overdevelopment such that it
had to be closed to tourists for several months in order to 'rehabilitate' the island:
had to be closed to tourists for several months in order to 'rehabilitate' the island:
Here's the new rules from back then:In a business forum held on February 9, 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte called the island of Boracay a "cesspool" and announced plans to close the island to tourists and conduct a rehabilitation on the island in June 2018 to resolve the worsening sewage conditions there.
Oh dear, scrub the last ruleEntry limitations:
Only 19,000 tourists are welcome to stay on the island at any given time
Only 6,405 tourists per day are allowed to enter the island
Availability of hotel rooms will be reduced from 12,000 to 6,000-9,000
Tourists may be required to present hotel reservations before entering the island
You can only book from Department of Tourism-accredited hotels.
Beach activities:
No smoking and alcoholic beverages along White Beach (main beach area of Boracay)
Dining on the beach is prohibited
Beachfront parties are now banned
Sand castles (a big attraction in Boracay) will be regulated
Shops and hawkers/peddlers are banned from peddling their goods on the beach
Fire dancing with kerosene lamps are prohibited
Casinos are banned on the island
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Spew
Was it ever nice? How long ago?
Was it ever nice? How long ago?
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Algal bloom in Boracay on April 25, 2018, a day prior to the resort island's closure.
I heard it was the place to go back in the 70-80s..not that I got to see it then.
Anyway, the casinos should fix the place..
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LOL, that reminds me..
First trip we were steaming out to Koh Tang, looking for the legendary, critically endangered, Nicobar Pigeon Caloenas nicobarica.
The mouth watering memory of the prized "blue chicken" to all Khmer islanders.
Last Cambodian sighting was there in about 2001/2
I was having an SMS conversation with a Cambridge type conservation scientist, and mad birder, who was up in Phnom penh - pumping him for clues. And doing a bit of brain storming..
Me - "Tom, i've seen all the Grand Plans for Koh Tang. Casinos, condo's, golf courses, racetracks - the full catastrophe.
Maybe we could get one of the 'Eco-tourist Casinos' to fund a breeding program for the pigeon??
lol. It's right in line with what they say in The Plan"
Tom E - "Koh Tang also has the critically endangered Christmas Island Frigatebird Fregata andrewsii.
That is more in tune with their actual philosophy - it's classed as a klepto-parasitic species"
beware the klepto-parasitic species on the islands - and watch the cruel curved hook on its beak
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I went there a few years ago. It was a right pain in the ass getting on the island. You arrive at the airport and then have to drag your case over rough ground to the taxi stand, where you queue up for one of those bloody awful bikes with side cars. Rip off prices and very uncomfortable.clutchcargo wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 9:16 pm Not unlike another place I can think of, they fcuked up Boracay with overdevelopment such that it
had to be closed to tourists for several months in order to 'rehabilitate' the island:
Here's the new rules from back then:In a business forum held on February 9, 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte called the island of Boracay a "cesspool" and announced plans to close the island to tourists and conduct a rehabilitation on the island in June 2018 to resolve the worsening sewage conditions there.
Oh dear, scrub the last ruleEntry limitations:
Only 19,000 tourists are welcome to stay on the island at any given time
Only 6,405 tourists per day are allowed to enter the island
Availability of hotel rooms will be reduced from 12,000 to 6,000-9,000
Tourists may be required to present hotel reservations before entering the island
You can only book from Department of Tourism-accredited hotels.
Beach activities:
No smoking and alcoholic beverages along White Beach (main beach area of Boracay)
Dining on the beach is prohibited
Beachfront parties are now banned
Sand castles (a big attraction in Boracay) will be regulated
Shops and hawkers/peddlers are banned from peddling their goods on the beach
Fire dancing with kerosene lamps are prohibited
Casinos are banned on the island
Then down to the ferry port where you have to queue up (again) and show you hotel booking and get your hand stamped. You are given multiple different coloured pieces of paper - it took ages.
Then queue up again for the ferry ticket. You show the papers and get some of them back, no idea what that was about. Then you go through security and give another ticket, and finally are led to a boat and the last ticket disappears. Once on the boat you wait, and wait until they are full and can be bothered to get going.
Once on the island you go through the taxi racket again and, finally, get dumped at an alleyway and told your hotel is, "down there, not far" (It might be, but mine wasn't.)
However, it was all well worth it, it is a lovely beach and lots of eye candy, and the beach bars are very relaxed and well stocked with entertainment.
I would go back tomorrow in a normal world.
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Re: Boracay casino plans revived
spent a few weeks off an on in Boracay while i was living /working out of HK in 83/84 as my ex partner had a resort there
there an Phuket were amazing places
Obviously, for me,
Phuket was better
there an Phuket were amazing places
Obviously, for me,
Phuket was better
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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